# Jack Schneider
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William John Schneider (May 16, 1883 – April 17, 1958) was an American college football player and coach. He played for Saint Louis University. He is credited with making the first legal reception of a forward pass in American football, thrown by Bradbury Robinson in a game at Carroll College on September 5, 1906.
Do Schools Suck? with Dr. Jack Schneider
Dr. Jack Schneider, Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor at UMass Amherst and and host of the Have You Heard podcast about education policy, joins us to break down the recent “schools are bad” media bonanza (links below). Dr. Schneider digs in to what’s flawed about the panic-inducing articles a…
What Prison Can Teach Us About School w/ Jennifer Berkshire
Tomorrow, I’ll be trading Iowa for a couple days in Los Angeles, where the HRP team will be presenting for the third year at LearningInspirEd’s Student Power Summit. It’s in LA this year in partnership with Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. The f…
The Assault on Public Education
April 1, 2026
The Assault on Public Education: A Conversation with Jennifer Berkshire
Public schools, says Jennifer Berkshire, are the places "where we start to solve problems together" and from which no child can be excluded even if she has special needs or two moms. Public education is really th…
What MCAS can, and can't, tell us about student achievement
This week on the Codcast, CommonWealth's Jennifer Smith is joined by Jack Schneider, coauthor of Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To). They discuss the book's argument in the context of current debates over Massachusetts's testing requirements and p…
Putting standardized testing to the test
With spring comes the annual ritual of MCAS testing in Massachusetts schools. It’s how we gauge the performance of individual students as well as schools and districts. The assessment of basic skills in math, English, and, more recently, science offers a snapshot of academic achievement levels, and…
Reading the Room
An old threat has returned to classrooms across the country — and it’s made of pages and ink. On this week’s On the Media, hear what it means to ban a book, and who has the right to choose what kids learn. Plus, meet the student who took his school board all the way to the Supreme Court in the 80s.…
Read the Room
An old threat has returned to classrooms across the country — and it’s made of pages and ink. On this week’s On the Media, hear what it means to ban a book, and who has the right to choose what kids learn. Plus, meet the student who took his school board all the way to the Supreme Court in the 80s.…
Prof. Jack Schneider: What Counts as Evidence? The Real Battle Behind Education Reform | EPS 17
In this episode, Dr. Steven Stolz sits down with Prof. Jack Schneider of the University of Massachusetts, historian, policy researcher, and founder of the Beyond Test Scores Project, for a conversation that cuts through the noise of education debate to ask what evidence in education actually means,…
37. Why Involve Your Community At All?
Jack Schneider joins us from UMass-Amherst to talk about what community members have to offer local schools beyond tax dollars, and what schools have to offer community members beyond test scores (to coin a phrase).
You can email him with follow-ups, as he offers in the episode.
We talked about an…
School as a Game -- Ethan Hutt
If the goal of school is to learn, school isn't a game. But if the goal of school is to get a high score on a test, or raise the rankings of your university, or beat the competition to get into med school, then school looks an awful lot like a game, with winning more important than learning.
Ethan …
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